CPC A21C 11/04 (2013.01) | 15 Claims |
1. A cookie molding machine, comprising: an infeed installation for a dough; a molding device for shaping dough pieces; a cutting device for separating the dough pieces from a dough sheet; and at least one first transport device for transporting the dough pieces out of a region of the cutting device toward a transfer region, wherein the molding device includes a rotating molding roller and a counter-rotatable kneading roller disposed at a specific mutual spacing with parallel rotation axes, such that a dough sheet is able to be configured about a shell surface of the kneading roller, a thickness of the dough sheet being determined by the spacing of the kneading roller and the molding roller, wherein the molding roller in a region of the shell surface thereof has at least one recess or depression, respectively, which serves as a mold and thus as a negative for the dough pieces to be shaped, such that raised quantities of dough are able to be applied to the dough sheet configured about the kneading roller, said raised quantities of dough being positives of the mold, respectively, disposed on the molding roller, wherein a cutting tool of the cutting device is disposed so as to be behind the molding roller in a rotation direction of the molding roller and wherein the dough positives that have been applied to the dough sheet by the mold of the molding roller are able to be cut off from the dough sheet by the cutting tool, wherein said molding device is configured to enable installing, cleaning and servicing of the cookie molding machine and/or individual modules.
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